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Ribbon Rouge Presents Mode Models

We're back with another feature of one of premiere partners, and some great friends at Mode Models! Each year Mode Models contributes to our Ribbon Rouge Gala with an amazing assortment of local designers and amazing models and this year is no different. We are so proud to welcome them back again this year and to include such dedicated and supportive partners and friends in our show. Mode Models is truly an amazing organization with an international presence that is also a local agency here in the city!

Ribbon Rouge: Who are you? Tell us a little bit about yourself and your history/ what you think is important about who you are?

Mode Models: Mode Models is an international modeling agency that discovers, promotes and represents talent at the highest levels of the industry. Mode’s men and women have modeled fashions for virtually every top designer on the planet and through mode’s extensive network of relationships with other agencies, models are “placed” with companies like Women, IMG, Elite, and DNA in foreign markets. Thriving local markets in Alberta keep models busy when they return home. Some models, like Tricia Helfer, Jason Thompson and Kate Nauta, have turned their modeling success into acting careers and now star in major motion pictures and television shows. Mode Models offers more than just a service or product; it symbolizes opportunity. With tremendous clout and vast experience the agency stands as a door – an access point through which the best clients encounter the greatest talents.

RR: What do you stand for?

MM: Visionary, chic, ethical, audacious – these are the diverse words that describe mode models, a perennial name in the world of fashion.

RR: Our theme this year is QUEEN! It is an ode to powerful women who have positively influenced us by their lives. What does this mean to you?

MM: Powerful women are at the core of everything we do at Mode Models. For us, a QUEEN is a women with a purpose, a strong work ethic, and compassion for others.

RR: How do you feel about femininity/ womanhood/ the state of affairs of women’s rights in our country?

MM: We see ourselves surrounded by strong intelligent women that are moving their causes forward in every area!

RR: Who is your Queen (inspiration)? Why?

MM: The women is our lives! We’re so lucky to be surrounded by them!

RR: Tell us about your art?

MM: Our art is finding the unique beauty in every new young woman we work with!

RR: What does it mean to you?

MM: It means giving opportunities and fostering talents in our local community, something we are very passionate about.

RR: Your advice to women?

MM: Find what makes you special and celebrate what is unique about you!

Mode Models will once again be a huge part of this year's show and will be flaunting their talent on the catwalks at this year's Gala. Join them on on November 28st, 2015 at Ribbon Rouge in Edmonton! Don’t forget to buy tickets for Ribbon Rouge 2015! Tickets can be purchased online here.